It's primarily a "school milonga"although many people from the broader community show up. Still, I plan a list which is thicker on alternative and accessible music than usually. And I also reserve a special room for Pugliese, whose birthday falls on Dec. 2th, and on the composer Sebastan Piana, a later-November "birthday boy" whose life I've just reviewed. We are totally indebted to Piana for the music of milonga, but he also composed many great valses, and more than a few classic tangos.
01. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "La trilla" 1940 2:21
02. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Catamarca" 1940 2:23
03. Carlos di Sarli - Instrumental "Shusheta" 1940 2:24
04. Carrapicho "Tic Tic Tac cortina 2" 2007, 2007 0:18
05. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Recuerdos De Paris" 1937 3:12
06. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Condena (S.O.S.)" 1937 2:39
07. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Nada Más" 1938 3:02
08. Lidiya Ruslanova "Valenki 4 (cortina)" 0:24
09. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Comparsa criolla" 1941 2:51
10. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Una noche de garufa" 1941 2:32
11. Ricardo Tanturi - Instrumental "Argañaraz" 1940 2:21
12. Vitas "7, the element cortina" 2012 0:23
The first Sebastian Piana's compositions for the night are his earliest trend-setting milongas:
13. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Milonga Sentimental" 1933 3:12
14. Francisco Canaro - Ernesto Famá "Milonga Del 900" 1933 2:54
15. Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida "Milonga criolla" 1936 3:05
16. Russian Folk "Kalinka-Malinka 1 (cortina)" 0:25
17. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Hasta siempre amor" 1958 2:57
18. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Sus Ojos Se Cerraron" 1956 2:47
19. Donato Racciatti - Olga Delgrossi "Queriendote" 1955 2:49
20. Alla Pugacheva "Million Scarlet Roses" 1982 0:19
A mixed tanda sampler of the romantic wave which splashed all over tango with the Argentine Revolution of 1943
21. Lucio Demare - Raul Beron "Que solo estoy" 1943 3:04
22. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Alberto Carol "Bajo El Cono Azul" 1944 2:43
23. Orquesta Típica Víctor - Ortega Del Cerro "Una Vez" 1943 3:22 3:24
Both "Caseron De Tejas" & "Paisaje" are Sebastian Piana's compositions, and, in a typical Piana way, he loves diving into history. The tile-roofed house (Caseron de tejas) from the era when the first valses just started to reverberate in the old barrio of Belgrano...
24. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Del Campo "Caseron De Tejas" 1942 2:45
25. Pedro Láurenz - Alberto Podestá "Paisaje" 1943 2:53
26. Pedro Láurenz - Juan Carlos Casas "Mascarita" 1940 2:53
27. Viktor Tsoy "Good morning, last Hero cortina long" 1989 0:35
28. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Tabernero" 1941 2:33
29. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Danza maligna" 1940 2:25
30. Enrique Rodriguez - Armando Moreno "Llorar por una mujer" 1941 2:47
31. Viktor Tsoy "Red-Yellow Days cortina long 3" 0:33
32. Soha "Mil Pasos" 2008 4:07
33. Alacran "Reflejo De Luna" 2010 3:44
34. Fool's Garden "Lemon tree" 1995 3:09
35. Stas Borsov "Anyuta cortina" 2000 0:21
And "Milonga de los fortines" is one of the longest "time travels" we enjoy in Piana's compositions, with the bugle call of the desert camps ("fortines" or little forts) of Argentina's Indian wars.
36. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Mariano Balcarce "Milonga De Los Fortines" 1937 2:55
37. Orquesta Tipica Victor - Carlos Lafuente "Cacareando" 1933 2:45
38. Emilio Pellejero - Enalmar De Maria "Mi Vieja Linda" 1941 2:26
39. Pink Floyd "Goodbye Blue Sky cortina long 2" 0:29
The Chaif Russian rock classic, while quite danceable, turned out to be lower on energy - but still nicely supported by the bracketing tracks in this tanda:
40. 5Nizza "Soldat" 2003 3:13
41. Chaif "Nikto ne uslyshit (Oy-yO)" 1994 4:26
42. Paolo Conte "Via Con Me" 1981 2:47
43. "Nature doesn't have bad weather" 0:24
44. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos, Romeo Gavioli, Lita Morales "Sinfonía De Arrabal" 1940 3:07
45. Edgardo Donato - Lita Morales, Romeo Gavioli "Mi Serenata" 1940 3:02
46. Edgardo Donato - Horacio Lagos "El Adios" 1938 3:09
47. Sting "Windmills Of Your Mind" 1999 0:24
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| Osvaldo Pugliese playing piano to an overflowing street. From Historias & Canciones blog |
We are celebrating the birthday of Osvaldo Pugliese tonight. Saint Pugliese has been so central to tango and indeed to Argentine culture that I hesitate writing about him. So much has been written, in so many places, there isn't anything I can add. Osvaldo, born on Dec. 2 1905, belonged to a family of the early tango musicians. His perhaps most famous composition, "Recuerdo", was created when Osvaldo was just 18, and registered jointly with his father (and with persistent rumors that Osvaldo's estranged brother contributed to the score). But Osvaldo Pugliese didn't convene the first orchestra with records until 2 decades later, and he started out quite faithfully following the stylistic path of his great teacher Julio de Caro. Yet it is Pugliese, and not De Caro, whom the tangueros are crazy about! Pugliese's wildly accelerating and decelerating beat has already made him a legend. Add to this his intense sincopation and arrastres. Overlay the music with politics and social justice ... with the orchestra which functioned as a workers' co-op, with his regular stints in jail, with blacklisting on the airwaves, with gangs of thugs battling the influence of Pugliese fans ... and you see how he is just a totally outsize figure in the Argentine culture.
Oh, how I remember craving and at the same time fearing to dance to his complex and irresistibly driving music in my early tango years! Eventually I learned a simple but useful mnemonic rule about it, which goes like this: "Pugliese was a Communist -> Communist aesthetics glorifies the Factory Machine -> The unstoppable engine and the flywheel pick up speed and slow down, but their inertia dictates a nearly-uniform rate of acceleration and deceleration". I don't actually think that Pugliese's music has much to do with the industrial aesthetics, but his best tunes do accelerate and decelerate in a predictable, steady fashion! This forceful departure from the steady tango beat was quite revolutionary - but it also totally defied Pugliese in the genres of milonga and vals. Defied, I must add, until a further 35 years passed. It all changed in December 1979. Pugliese's orchestra toured Japan, month after month, city after city, overcome with homesickness. The director needed to revive a good memory of home to nurture his tired musicians, and he decided to make a new arrangement of a very old vals, "Desde el alma". They played it again and again afterwards! Because the breakthrough happened so late in tango history, it remained a one-of-a-kind modern vals gem, and it's a challenge to "tanda it up". Happy birthday, maestro!
48. Osvaldo Pugliese "Desde El Alma" 1979 2:58
49. Color Tango "Ilusión de mi vida" 1997 3:00
50. The Alex Krebs Tango Sextet "Romance de Barrio" 2011 2:41
51. Anzhelika Varum "Autumn Jazz" 0:20
"Sobre el pucho", the earliest of the acclaimed tangos of Piana's, composed when he was 19, and already with a story of a bygone barrio.
52. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Dime, mi amor" 1941 2:40
53. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Sobre el pucho" 1941 2:46
54. Juan D'Arienzo - Héctor Mauré "Ya lo ves" 1941 2:39
55. Bravo - Zhanna Aguzarova "Space Rock-n-Roll" 1993 0:12
56. Eendo "Eshgh e Aasemaani" 2011 3:31
57. Goran Bregovic "Maki Maki" 2009 3:33
58. Kevin Johansen "Sur O No Sur" 2002 4:53
59. "Na Pua O Hawaii - George Ku Trio" 1992 0:22
Silbando, "whistling", is another early composition of Sebastian Piana (1925), but IMHO it shines the best with the 1950s record of Fresedo.
60. Osvaldo Fresedo - Héctor Pacheco "Pero Yo Sé" 1952 3:05
61. Osvaldo Fresedo - Héctor Pacheco "Silbando" 1952 2:51
62. Osvaldo Fresedo - Héctor Pacheco"Pampero" 1950 2:54
63. Russian folk "Murka" 0:20
This tanda is crowned with another Sebastian Piana's jewels full of nostalgia, "Tinta roja"
64. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "El Bulín De La Calle Ayacucho" 1941 2:29
65. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Toda Mi Vida" 1941 2:55
66. Aníbal Troilo - Francisco Fiorentino "Tinta roja" 1941 2:59
67. Zhanna Aguzarova "Old Hotel" 1987 0:22
With "Estampa Federal", Sebastian Piana takes us even deeper into Argentina's history, traveling over a century back in time. The vals, about a love separated by exile, is set against the aftermath of the 1833 Revolution of the Restorers and the reign of the mazorquero death squads which followed.
With "Estampa Federal", Sebastian Piana takes us even deeper into Argentina's history, traveling over a century back in time. The vals, about a love separated by exile, is set against the aftermath of the 1833 Revolution of the Restorers and the reign of the mazorquero death squads which followed.
68. Carlos Di Sarli - Alberto Podestá "Estampa Federal" 1942 2:42
69. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Rosamel" 1940 2:32
70. Carlos Di Sarli - Roberto Rufino "Alma mía" 1940 2:23
71. Maya Kristalinskaya "Nezhnost (Tenderness)" 0:17
72. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Sorbos amargos" 1942 3:22
73. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "Manana zarpa un barco" 1942 3:22
74. Lucio Demare - Juan Carlos Miranda "No te apures, Carablanca" 1942 3:29
75. Folk "Shumel Kamysh " 0:23
76. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Rondando tu esquina" 1945 2:49
77. Osvaldo Pugliese - Roberto Chanel "Corrientes Y Esmeralda" 1944 2:49
78. Osvaldo Pugliese - Jorge Maciel "Remembranza" 1956 3:41
79. Juan D'Arienzo - Instrumental "La cumparsita" 1951 3:49
80. "silence" 0:31
81. The Klezmatics with Chava Alberstein "Di krenitse" 4:11
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